She also recently completed a lead role in a French comedy Cineman while also starring alongside well-known French actress Audrey Tautou in the comedy The Russian Dolls. A spokesman at The Cannes Film Festival said: “We are devastated by the news. All of those attending the festival had been hugely impressed by Lucy’s work. She was a star in the making.”

Her father Richard Gordon, 60, told the UK’s Dail Mail newspaper: “The whole family is so proud of Lucy, and we always have been. Lucy was a lovely, generous and unselfish person who always gave so much thought to other people and put them before herself. Her career had just been taking off and it’s a tragedy that it has been cut short so soon.” (Photo: WENN)